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Re:Heroku 22 Stack on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @03:20PM (#31758015)
I'm actually in the process of moving a large monolith from EC2 to Heroku and this is exactly what the plan is: our DB (> 10TB) is on RDS; ES, Redis also are from AWS. Third-party services aren't provisioned through the marketplace, instead straight through the vendor. Right now this is Datadog and a bug reporter.

We're extremely overprovisioned on EC2 as it is (peaking at 54GB consumed RAM over the last 12 months, and we have 386GB available) so management is welcoming the change to a bunch of Performance L dynos!

We're moving to Heroku for a variety of reasons — least of which is their recent fiasco — primarily dev exp and Pipelines/review apps (still supported!). Both will give our developers a vastly superior experience to what they had: nothing (we desperately need it).

Tiger Direct is a retailer. I think you mean Tiger Global Management.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2022) on Friday April 01, 2022 @04:42PM (#30883097)
SEEKING WORK | Remote | United States

Previously a senior software engineer at AngelList. Before that I was leading a YC company. Rails contributor with over 10-years experience in the framework leading teams/staff eng/senior eng. Ruby is my home. Serial founder with one big hit and lots of Incredible Journey posts. I’m a joy to work with and am currently very affordable.

I’ve recently hit rock bottom. Please help.

[email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2022) on Friday April 01, 2022 @04:36PM (#30883055)
Location: United States

Remote: only

Willing to relocate: can’t

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Ruby without Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Vue, Stimulus

Email: [email protected]

Previously a senior engineer at AngelList. Before that I was leading a YC company. I’ve single-handedly upgraded Rails versions for apps that are poorly-tested and massive, and well-tested and massive. I’m very product-minded, too.

I’ve recently run into a bit of trouble and could really use some work. I’m available affordably and promptly. Lots of references available.

Re:In praise of opinionated frameworks on Monday March 14, 2022 @09:54PM (#30680912)
BestBuy is a big Ruby shop.

Help: FBI criminally charged me with $6MM loss for hotlinking. I didn't do it

Throwaway for obvious reasons.I’ll try to be as concise as possible. Some details have been changed to protect myself.I used to operate a website that hotlinked to an asset from $company’s S3 bucket. When $company was made aware of my doing from the FBI, the FBI asked them to calculate the loss amount. They did this by looking at IPs that hit the bucket over a span of 1 month, and the IPs that...

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Re:Ask HN: Self-hosted open source IP security cameras? on Thursday March 03, 2022 @09:57PM (#30550101)
Flussonic might be worth checking out.
Re:Ask HN: How did you find investors for your startup? on Friday February 25, 2022 @08:07PM (#30474373)
I have found that the more excited that a customer is excited about a product the more apt they are to be your best salesperson. This was especially true for one of my consumer SaaS.
Re:Sunsetting the Bethesda.net launcher and migrating to Steam on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @07:36PM (#30435972)
At the very least, I can be assured that Steam is actively being worked on. I get an update every time I sign in!
Re:About adding a static route to my DOCSIS modem on Sunday February 20, 2022 @09:12PM (#30411209)
Really interesting and I have no idea why it has to be this hard. Fun nonetheless, though cynically, I was holding out hope that hope that after all the work he'd find the feature in the web interface.
Re:Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:10PM (#30393444)
The case I'm referring to didn't involve Amazon.
Re:Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts on Friday February 18, 2022 @11:24AM (#30387712)
The FBI is all kind of hanky. This just affirms my experience.

In my experience, they don't do their due diligence of a victim's reporting: they take what they say at face value if it's a corporation. Multi-million dollar loss? Couldn't have possibly been calculated in bad faith.

It was.

Live boot on the smallest USB drive you can find, surveillance cameras at points of entry. If you see trouble coming, swallow the drive.